carrier
IPA: kˈæriɝ
noun
- A person or object that carries someone or something else.
- (science fiction, by extension) A starship designed to carry starfighters
- A carrier pigeon.
- A person or company in the business of shipping freight.
- A signal such as radio, sound, or light that is modulated to transmit information.
- (telecommunications) A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- (aviation) A certified airline.
- (engineering) That which drives or carries.
- A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the faceplate; a lathe dog.
- A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.
- A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
- A movable piece in a planetary gear train.
- (especially automotive) Part of a differential gear assembly that holds gears and their bearings.
- (chemistry) A catalyst or other intermediary in a chemical reaction.
- (genetics, pathology) A person or other organism that has a genetic trait, mutation or infection liable to cause a disease, but displays no symptoms.
- (physics, electronics) A charge carrier.
- (art, manufacturing) A liquid or gas used as a medium for another substance.
- A Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Canada. Sometimes considered to be three separate languages: Southern Carrier, Northern Carrier and Central Carrier.
- Synonym of English Carrier
- A surname.
- A small town in Garfield County, Oklahoma, United States; from the surname.
- Ellipsis of aircraft carrier. [A warship designed to carry aircraft, serving as a seagoing air base, with a deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed.]
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Examples of "carrier" in Sentences
- It certifies that the carrier is a Mexican native.
- However, the carrier is also seeking $500 in damages for each call made to a Verizon Wireless customer, which is a punishment we like very much.
- The cover fell down and hit on a piece of tile located on what we call a carrier plate between the left ohms pod and the aft body on the orbiter.
- Seth Bloom, a spokesman at AT&T, told GigaOm that the carrier is adding capacity to the downtown Austin network, and attendees should see their [...]
- The timetable juggling that needs to take place to get sixteen schedules cleared and a will and last rites performed the carrier is a feat of patience and organization.
- Seth Bloom, a spokesman at AT&T, emailed me 10 minutes ago to say that the carrier is adding capacity to the downtown Austin network, and attendees should see their iPhone (or other AT&T device) experience improve by this evening.
- -- The immense superiority of the Transcontinental over any other road, as a grain carrier, is due to the fact that a train can travel from the Yellowhead Pass to tide water at Quebec without encountering any adverse grades greater than four-tenths of one per cent., or 21 feet to the mile.
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